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At FOSDEM 2014 ProxySQL and MaxScale were both presented. Both are proxy that can help build sophisticated MariaDB/MySQL architectures. But currently what is the most used proxy with MySQL? It is HAproxy. HAproxy is a level 4 proxy that has no knowledge of the MySQL protocol. Being low level makes it very fast but it [...]

Like TokuDB, InfiniDB is now a fully open source server product. In the past infiniDB was “almost open source”. The open source version was an old release with no access to the advance functions like MPP multi-server execution. This is no more the case. With InfiniDB 4 the open source version is the latest release [...]

MySQL Connect 2013 has been a great edition. There was of course a lot of nice announcements of improvements in the the core MySQL server technology. One of the major announcement that received a lot of buzz was MySQL Fabric. MySQL Fabric is an infrastructure component aimed at simplifying construction of a highly available, sharded, [...]

InnoDB plugin offers an adaptative compression that is very interesting for performance. This compression works at a table level. Like most optimization techniques it is not black or white. You have to decide depending on IO patterns / CPU usage / Memory usage / disks constraints what tables are good candidates for compression. I was trying to define a methodology to help decide which tables to compress to reach performance gains. I thought I could use MySQL “show status” command or information_schema tables. Unfortunately MySQL does not offer any per tables IO statistics. [...]